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Article #14883Re: MacXL WD2001 Use
From: David Phillip Oster
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1987 22:59
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1987 22:59
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In article <512@apple.UUCP> dgold@apple.UUCP (David Goldsmith) writes: >In article <4269@utcsri.UUCP> outer@utcsri.UUCP (Richard Outerbridge) writes: >>The MacXL I/O board has an empty, unsocketed spot labelled "WD2001" >The socket was for a floating point arithmetic coprocessor, not a DES chip. According to documents that Apple sent me at the time, the floating point co-processor chip that goes in that socket actually runs slower than doing the floating point in 68000 machine language!
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!bacchus!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!lapis.berkeley.edu!oster From: oster@lapis.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MacXL WD2001 Use Message-ID: <2692@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 17:59:04 EST Article-I.D.: jade.2692 Posted: Thu Mar 5 17:59:04 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 8-Mar-87 05:14:11 EST References: <4269@utcsri.UUCP> <512@apple.UUCP> Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: oster@lapis.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 8